Drive Time with Smashby: Gym Dogs

To prove it to you, I’m about to show you pictures that my wife sent me while I was coaching last week to brighten my day.

Yep, those are our babies. 😍

Even though I work in gyms, I can’t take my fur babies to work with me, and there are a few reasons why. While most people love them, I’m sure not everyone would. Besides, the Corgi’s “SUPERBARK” would echo through the gym so much that a few members would probably go deaf. I don’t want that to happen.

In the video below, I share a bit of my perspective on “gym dogs” and the different policies I’ve seen used at the many gyms I’ve visited/worked in a decade of CrossFit. This is not an exhaustive list. I don’t even touch on things like people who are simply scared of dogs, or those who may have allergies to dogs, for example.

Instead, this post is simply create constructive dialogue over a topic that gets a lot of people really fired up on both sides of the issue.

My stance is that everyone involved should be hyper-aware that the worst case scenario of something going wrong is a pretty bad scenario. So whatever you do as an owner or an athlete/member, just be careful. No one wants a human or dog to get hurt, or to have any property damaged.